striping question

[dagobert]

Hi. I'm curious to know if there is a way to chrome plate over a pinstriped pattern? For example, if a piece were copper plated, polished, nickel plated, polished again, then painted with a pinstripe pattern using some sort of paint or possibly etched into the metal and the etching filled with gold or anodizing color dye, and then chromed (or black-chromed) over the top of that, so that the pattern would be visible yet would also be protected as part of the plating?

[mcaswell]

Sounds like you think the chrome is clear. It isn't.